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Where to go in Europe in December

Warmest in December, by typical daytime highs: Tenerife at 23°C, Arrecife (Lanzarote) at 22°C, Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) at 22°C and Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) at 22°C. The cheapest trip below stops in Alicante. €115 per person with a cabin bag buys 3 flights through 4 countries in December: from Paris on Sun 6 Dec. Each trip below leaves between Tue 1 Dec and Thu 31 Dec, from anywhere in Europe. That trip's oldest price was seen 3 days ago and may be higher now. One city per country, 2–4 nights in each, non-stop flights only. Updated every night.

Plan your own December trip

Where do you start?

Type a city or a country, or pick “Anywhere in Europe” for the cheapest start. From Canada or the US, type your home airport (e.g. Calgary or BOS): trips start with a flight from the nearest of 11 big airports there (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and more), and the budget covers it.

Then fly on toFrom Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or an airport near them: a few places in Europe, one long flight on to Southeast Asia, a few places there, and home. Three long-haul tickets, all in the budget.

Leavingbetween 1–31 Dec

WhenAnytimeA windowFixed dates

Leave and come backto

Give or take

First flight betweenand

In the next

Prices go up to 12 Feb; later dates are added daily.

Trip3+ places, 2–4 nights each

Trip length

Trip length, first flight to lastto

EndsAnywhere

Where it endsBack homeAnywhereIn a city

Total for all flightsUp to €400

Budget for all flights Only a small under-seat bag (leaves out the cabin bag)Only trips low for their dates (under what their flights usually cost)Leave it empty for no cap. Back home counts the flight home. With a cabin bag, each flight counts its airline's usual price for one, or €60 where we don't know it (€65 on a long flight).

Travellers1 adult

TravellersEvery price, the budget included, is for all of you.

Checking visas? Add your passport

Set every detail: nights in each, kinds of place, countries, visasnights, places, countries +2 optional

Trip shape

Places to visitto3 or more. Your start and a finish city don't count.

Nights in each placetoAny: from 1 up to 14.

Also start from cities nearbyWhen you start from one city: trips can start from any city this close (straight line), and Back home can end at any of them.Last flight byEmpty: any day.Cities in each countryThe country with most of the trip can have more.Return to a country already on the tripCan a trip leave a country and come back to it later? Never keeps each country's cities in one go. Your start country counts too.

Which places

Places you must visit (up to 3)

Kind of placesCapitalsIslandsBeachesMountainsLakesOld townsSmall townsSkiNorthern lightsChristmas marketsWarm places From our notes on each city. Ski counts from December to mid-April. Northern lights counts from mid-September to March. Start, return and must-visit cities don't count. Mixing them up compares the kinds you pick, or capitals, islands and beaches.

Mix them up: no two of the same kind in a row Warm places onlyEvery place's typical daytime high for the month you're there, from long-term weather station averages. A place without them is left out.

Only these countries

Most of the trip in one countryat leastcities there

Skip countries

You Up to, for one flight

Flight timesandLocal time at each airport. We don't know every flight's times: a flight whose time we don't know stays in, marked for you to check.

Passports you holdLeaves out countries that need a visa.

Visas I already holdSchengen visaUK visaUS visaA valid one opens the countries that take it.

No visa at all: leave out e-visas, ETAs and visas on arrival too Leave each city from the airport I landed at

Prices are for one traveller, flights with a cabin bag, the cheapest seen lately.

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Example trips in December

Some of the cheapest we found. They don't change with the search above.

Prices seen, not held: each says how old it is
Each total says what a cabin bag adds
Each flight is its own ticket
Ranked by price alone

We check the onward non-stop fares from each stop, for each number of nights you allow, and string the cheapest we find into a trip through several countries.

From Paris, 6–13 Dec €115per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€43 without bags · prices seen up to 3 days ago, may be higher now

ParisAlicante4nMilan2nBerlin

Airport change in Milan

From Malaga, 12–18 Dec €116per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€44 without bags · prices seen up to 3 days ago, may be higher now

MalagaMilan4nWarsaw2nStockholm

Airport change in Milan

From Stockholm, 3–7 Dec €118per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€46 without bags · prices seen up to 5 days ago, may be higher now

StockholmRiga2nOslo2nGdansk

From Frankfurt, 7–15 Dec €118per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€46 without bags · prices seen up to 2 days ago

FrankfurtSofia4nValencia3nMilan

From Alicante, 10–19 Dec €118per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€46 without bags · prices seen up to 7 days ago, may be higher now

AlicanteMilan4nKrakow3nCopenhagen

From Milan, 15–20 Dec €129per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€44 without bags · prices seen up to 6 days ago, may be higher now

MilanTirana2nWarsaw3nCopenhagen

The weather in December

Typical daytime highs and rain in December: long-term averages at weather stations, not a forecast.

Warmest

Tenerifehighs of 23°C, some rain
Arrecife (Lanzarote)highs of 22°C, dry
Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)highs of 22°C
Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)highs of 22°C, dry
Funchal (Madeira)highs of 21°C, wet
Larnacahighs of 19°C, wet
Paphoshighs of 19°C, wet
Alanyahighs of 18°C, very wet
Alicantehighs of 18°C, dry
Almeriahighs of 18°C, some rain

No typhoon, cyclone or monsoon-flood season is at its peak in December at any of our start cities in Europe.

Where to go in Europe in December

Plan your own December trip

Example trips in December

The weather in December

Warmest

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